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In the odd beast that is the Princeton short-term semester, students take one class three hours a day, every day, for three weeks (in fact, the total class hours are greater than the 10-week long term). After spending the past year learning the basics of Hebrew grammar, I was hoping to take a Hebrew exegesis class, but none were offered. Instead, I took 2 Corinthians, which I knew would entail reading the letter in the original Greek. I had taken Greek the previous summer, which was like the short term stretched over 8 weeks--3 hours of class every day for eight weeks. Verb tenses and vocabulary were feverishly memorized each day and--more often than not--just as quickly forgotten. Even though I took a Greek exegesis class in the fall to help retain the Greek I had learned, the class emphasized exegesis over grammar, and I felt my grasp of Greek slipping through my fingers like so many grains of sand. All of this serves as preface to say that I was less than confident about my abili...